Hayley Williams is on the latest episode of Spotify’s Song Start show.
Solo artist and Paramore front-woman Hayley Williams shares how mental health affects our creative muscles, and the way she’s strengthened those muscles over the course of her almost two-decade long career. She shares tools, tips, and wisdom on how to best prepare and protect oneself from the pitfalls of burnout.
Hayley Williams was a guest on the Mayim Bialik podcast in May. I hadn’t posted about it though, so here it is.
Read More “Hayley Williams on Mayim Bialik Podcast” Hayley Williams’s latest album Flowers for Vases / Descansos is now available for vinyl pre-order.
Hayley Williams will be taking a social media break to “reset while writing lyrics.”
Read More “Hayley Williams Taking Social Media Break” Hayley Williams has shared a cover of Broadcast’s “Colour Me In.”
Read More “Hayley Williams Covers Broadcast” Hayley Williams announced a tea collaboration over the weekend with Tea Huntress.
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Hayley Williams has shared a cover of Phoebe Bridgers’s “Smoke Signals.”
Read More “Hayley Williams Covers Phoebe Bridgers” Hayley Williams have shared a cover of Failure’s “The Nurse Who Loved Me.”
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Hayley Williams is ready to start thinking about the next Paramore album. Us too Hayley, us too.
Read More “Hayley Williams Ready for Next Paramore Album” Hayley Williams talked with American Songwriter about her latest album:
For all the beauty she’s uncovered, Williams holds herself accountable, especially in her darkest, most harrowing moments—emotionally and physically. “Good Grief” plays upon far more than her psychological state, digging into the very real, often frightening, physiological effects of grief that we often ignore. There’s no such thing as good grief / Haven’t eaten in three weeks, she sings. Skin and bones when you’re not near me / I’m all skeleton and melody.
In its countless forms, grief can wreak havoc on the body, from an inability to get out of bed to forgetting to eat, and Williams’ awareness of her own cycles has been illuminating. “It’s hard for me to have perspective on my own grief when I’m going through it. I’m so thankful I’ve been home and that I have a family that’s honest,” she says. “My mom calls me out on things with love. It’s the same with my small circle of friends. We’re honest with each other. We tell each other when we notice somebody’s slipping.
“I wouldn’t go as far to say I have an eating disorder. When I’m really sad, I’m not hungry. It’s amazing what depression or various forms of grief can do to a person. You do forget how physical it is. When I’m talking about mental wellness, you have to look for physical signs, too,” she continues. “Your body is usually such a wise instrument. It’s so technical, and it can tell you things and reveal things to you. When I’m disconnected from my physical body, that’s when I’m not connected mentally either.”
This will apparently be the last interview she does for this album cycle, for now.
Read More “Hayley Williams Interview With American Songwriter” Hayley Williams talked with Zane Lowe about her latest album.
Read More “Hayley Williams Talks With Zane Lowe” Hayley Williams has called her new album more of a prequel:
This isn’t really a follow-up to Petals For Armor. If anything, it’s a prequel, or some sort of detour between parts 1 and 2 of Petals. The meaning of the album as a whole is maybe entirely different from diving into each song in particular,” says Williams. “For me, there’s no better way to tackle these individual subjects other than holistically. The ways I’ve been given time (forcibly, really) to stew on certain pains long enough to understand that they in fact, need to be released…indefinitely. I may never have been offered such a kindness; an opportunity to tend to the seeds I’d planted, to harvest, and to weed or prune what is no longer alive, in order to make space for the living. I wrote and performed this album in its entirety. That’s a career first for me. I recorded it at my home in Nashville, the home at which I’ve resided since Paramore released After Laughter. 2020 was really hard but I’m alive and so my job is to keep living and help others to do the same.
There’s also some new merch up for order, but no vinyl options yet.
Hayley Williams will release Flowers For Vases / Descansos tomorrow, February 5th.
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Hayley Williams has released the new song “My Limb.”
Read More “Hayley Williams – “My Limb”” Hayley Williams’s website now links to flowersforvases.com.
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